Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, DAVID JOSHUA (1877 - 1945), dramatist popular play Maes y Meillion. His play Owen Glyndŵr remains unpublished. He married Annie Davies, New Quay, 6 April 1904, in St. Paul's, Aberystwyth, and they had four children. He died 8 January 1945, and was buried in New Quay.
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner Dr Derec Llwyd Morgan. Dr Meredydd Evans, Cledwyn Hughes, John Morris and Ken Hopkins took advantage of his expertise in the preparation of important documents to facilitate campaigns for Wales, and he used his knowledge of the law to assist the Welsh Language Society, the Glyndŵr Fund, the Welsh Sunday Schools Council, Modern Welsh Publications (of which he was the first chair) as well as
DAVIES, HUGH EMYR (1878 - 1950), minister (Presb.) and poet he gained prominence. He won a chair at Pwllheli when he was 16 years old, and subsequently won 22 bardic chairs. He mastered the cynganeddion, but it was in the free metres that he excelled. His collected works were published in 1907 under the title Llwyn Hudol. His pryddest to ' Branwen ferch Llŷr ' won the crown at the Caernarfon national eisteddfod (1906); and his poem, ' Owain Glyndŵr ' won
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel Lancastrian lordship of Cydweli in 1388-89. In 1394-95, he served with Richard II in Ireland. However, by 1403, perhaps as early as 1401, Dwn had allied himself in rebellion with Owain Glyndŵr. In a letter, in Latin, 'to our very dear and entirely well beloved Henri Don', Glyndŵr writes to 'command, require, and entreat' Dwn to join him 'with the greatest force possible'. While this letter may never have
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist well as the children who remain in harmony with the pastoral world, are painted with remarkable precision, especially given the sheer scale of the work. The work, one of the most significant achievements in mural painting since the war, is, after some years in storage, now on display at Oriel Sycharth, Glyndwr University, Wrexham. During the period in which Eldridge was painting the mural (1951-6
EVANS, BERIAH GWYNFE (1848 - 1927), journalist and dramatist Born 12 February 1848, son of Evan Evans (1804 - 1886), Nant-y-glo, Monmouthshire; his mother's maiden name was Mary Valentine. Educated at the Beaufort British school, he became a teacher at Gwynfe and Llangadock, Carmarthenshire, but his aspirations were from the outset towards journalism. In 1879 he broke new ground with his play, 'Owain Glyndŵr,' which won the prize at the Llanberis
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, family and Penrhyn, but Griffith ap Gwilym lived throughout his life in north-east Wales. With his brother BLEDDYN, he died in rebellion with Owain Glyndŵr before October 1406, but Bleddyn's descendants, together with those of Griffith ap Gwilym, through his youngest son, Rhys, continued to be represented in Flintshire and Denbighshire until the 16th century. The personal connection of the family with
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. c. 1380-1410), a poet with Welsh literature and folklore, he was entertained at some of the famous courts of his period. His work includes poems to Owain Glyndŵr, Sir David Hanmer, Owain ap Maredudd of Neuadd Wen, and Hywel and Meurig Llwyd of Nannau, love and religious poetry, and it is now certain that he is the author of the poem to send the sun to greet Glamorgan, which has also been attributed to Iolo Goch and Dafydd
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author Born at Glyndŵr, Mount Pleasant, Pontnewynydd, Monmouthshire on 23 March 1913, the youngest of the three daughters of James David Haycock, miner (known locally as Jim Pearce) and Alice Maud, née Perry (both natives of Monmouthshire). Educated at Cwm-ffrwd-oer primary school, Pontypool grammar school for girls and Cardiff Technical College (later Cardiff College of Art). Her skill as an
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher The Beach of Falesá, The Trumpet Major, and What the old man does is always right. He was proud to be called a Welsh composer, and drew on Welsh authors for material, but there is no influence of folk music on his idiom, and the strongest musical influence on him was probably the Italian tradition. He was awarded a C.B.E. in 1981, and the Glyndwr award for outstanding contribution to the arts in
HOLBACHE, DAVID (fl. 1377-1423), lawyer, founder of Oswestry Grammar School lordship of Oswestry, and (in 1409) deputy-steward of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale. He was a member, either for Shrewsbury or for Shropshire, of Parliaments between February 1406 and November 1417. He suffered great losses in the Glyndŵr wars; according to a petition of his in 1406-7 (Rotuli Parliamentorum, iii, 600-1) he had lost 2,000 marks of rents of his lands in Wales, over and above about
HOPCYN ap TOMAS (c. 1330 - 1403), gentleman century ' Llyfr Coch Hergest ' has five awdlau written to him; the contents of these poems show that he was not only one of the chief patrons of the bards in South Wales but also a man who interested himself in their craft and was a collector of Welsh manuscripts. In 1403, when Owain Glyndŵr was at Carmarthen, messengers were sent by the prince to fetch Hopcyn ap Tomas so that he might explain to Owain

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